The DAZ Store has a nice freebie through 15th May 2012, a set of quality pirate chests, “Treasure Chests” which normally retails for $15.
Category Archives: Poser
3D Art Direct – new service, first podcast
The editors of 3D Art Direct magazine have started the magazine’s first download podcast. Artists covered in the first MP3 include…
DeeDee Davies (Vue Studio, Poser Pro and Carrara Pro); and Les Garner from Sixus1 Media (Poser models and props)
Chasing The Dragon
A nice little trailer for “Chasing The Dragon”, being made in Poser Pro 2014…
New Nursoda female figure – freebies
Any new standalone figure from Nursoda is welcome. They are always of excellent quality, and have immense amounts of character. So it’s great news that he’s just launched another excellent characterful older female character called Aina…
Nursoda’s freestuff website has also updated with a fab set of free poses for Aina and his popular Hein figure…
How to paint hair in Photoshop – free 35 min video tutorial
Hair taking too long to render? Damage Inc. has just posted a new free 35 minute video tutorial on how to add hair to your DAZ Studio or Poser render, by painting it in with Adobe Photoshop…
New Sherlock Holmes standalone figure for Poser
A new original-figure Sherlock Holmes figure and clothes, “Holms” on the Renderosity store. There’s a nasty little copyright troll laying a shaky claim to the Sherlock Holmes name in the USA, which is presumably why this character has been given a slightly different name.
The poses for him only work in Poser. It’ll be interesting to see if these clothes can also be made to fit the excellent Doctor Pitterbill standalone character. He seems to be missing a bow-tie, but there are several such to be found floating around the Web.
Artifacts
I always enjoy those whacky/out-of-the-way DAZ Studio or Poser packs, if they’re well made. Quality model maker The AntFarm has just released one such, “Artifacts”, on the DAZ Store. Two authentic-looking ancient masks…
LuxRender hits version 1.0
The third-party high-quality renderer LuxRender hits version 1.0. LuxRender is available for either Poser or DAZ Studio.
New release: steampunk clocktower interior
Want a cool Hugo-style clock tower interior? Just released is a fine steampunk Poser model/scene, Steampunk Clock Tower for Poser…
Snarly’s Space
Snarly now has a single point for all his Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012 freebies… Snarly’s Space…
Snow Machine was recently upgraded to work with Poser Pro 2012.
Evil Eyes
Evilinnocence has a sale on his toony “eye” characters. Perfect for those considering undertaking a webcomic, I’d say. Because you won’t have to do mouths.
Free Daleks
A cool new set of Daleks on the Renderosity free stuff pages.
Poser Collada to Photoshop CS
An excellent and clear little video tutorial from Daniel Persedo, newly posted. He covers the details you need to consider when taking a Collada character export from Poser Pro 2014 to Photoshop CS Extended, and then compositing your figure against a 2D background in Photoshop…
SceneFix Python Script – free
I’m exploring some of the free Python scripts for Poser. I found that Snarly has just released a useful new SceneFix Python Script for Poser 9 / Poser Pro 2012…
It can, for either the currently selected actor or the whole scene:
* Correct gamma settings for image maps
* Set Reflection_Lite and Kd_Mult to zero
* Set Ambient value to zero
* Change Texture filtering (user choice)
* Set Diffuse colour to white if texture map is attached
* Set Diffuse value (user choice)
* Remove unused nodes from materials
* Change Crease angle (user choice)
* Turn off smoothingThere are also tools to :
* Add/remove dials from actors
* Rename nodes in the Material Room
* Delete multiple actors from the scene at once
* Create a character morph with INJ/REM pose files from a dialled character
Update: still available December 2019 via my Archive.org link on this page.
Exporting a prop and texture bundle in Poser Pro 2012
Did you know that Poser users can export a bundle of the whole contents used in a scene, to a new folder? Yup, the obj base, the .pz3, and the materials, all copied out and neatly placed into a single new folder.
Of course you can now export the whole scene, textured, out of Poser as a Collada .dae file. But this older method can still be useful for porting to other software such as Vue, especially if you first need to find and reduce the size of some huge 4000px textures.
Here’s how to do it…
1. Make a new destination folder somewhere.
2. Locate your Python Scripts panel in the Poser interface…
3. Go to Utility Functions, Choose “Collect Scene Inventory”
4. Select “Copy all to Folder”, and select your output destination folder.
The camera is also exported. You may find that you get a message saying that the lights in your scene were not exported.